The goal of this project is to relate DNA based measurements
of microbial communities from the human gut and other body sites to patient health status through niche modeling.
A high diversity
of microbial communities in the water could also reduce the potential for infection, according to earlier investigations conducted by UFZ researchers and published in Current Biology.
At Shedd Aquarium, this project is overseen by Dr. Bill Van Bonn, vice president for animal health and head of the A. Watson Armour III Center for Animal Health and Welfare, «Dr. Kent provides great expertise and has been working with our team for over ten years helping us better understand the
diversity of microbial communities in our waters.
The project will be the first to statistically analyze anthropological and environmental data alongside genomics data
of the microbial communities of human milk and the corresponding bacteria present in the gastrointestinal tracts of infants.
The PDF, Microbes Make the Cheese, A Report from the American Academy for Microbiology explains: Cheese is created by orderly
successions of microbial communities that produce compounds responsible for cheese flavor... Each piece of cheese contains as many as 10,000,000,000 or 10 billion microbes... The added starter cultures dominate the cheese microbiota, establishing conditions that select for the next microorganisms that will be capable of thriving in the changing cheese matrix.
While Konstantinidis and his research group have been studying microbes in natural ecosystems such as Lake Lanier in Georgia, this represents their first metagenome
analysis of microbial communities in the built environment.
Metagenomics is the high - throughput
sequencing of microbial community DNA extracts and, because it directly sequences this DNA, it can be used to characterize changes in the genes themselves and their function.
Toxicity assessment of pharmaceutical compounds on mixed culture from activated sludge using respirometric technique: The
role of microbial community structure — I.A. Vasiliadou, Science of The Total Environment
At threshold sedimentation rates of 1 millimeter per 1000 years, the low rates
of microbial community metabolism in the North Pacific Gyre allow sediments to remain oxygenated tens of meters below the sea floor.
A new study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), demonstrates the
importance of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels.
Biofuels Digest covered the recent study released by JBEI demonstrates the importance
of microbial communities as a source of stable enzymes that could be used to convert plants to biofuels.
A
comparison of the microbial community structure between inflamed and non-inflamed sites in patients with ulcerative colitis — Atsushi Hirano — Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
He said studies
of microbial communities often show associations between bacterial populations and health impact, but frequently they lack corroborating evidence to validate the findings.
High pulse energies are for raw substrate treatment yielding a high level of cell killing and disintegration while moderate pulse protocols are used for recirculate where the focus lies on the
control of the microbial community.
«What we've done since then is develop a reference
library of the microbial communities that occur in different types of poop — we have cows, horses, raccoons, humans, different types of birds, pigs, sea lions, and other animals, as well as sewage and septage.
The striking similarity of the recipient's and donor's intestinal microbiota following after bacteriotherapy suggests that the donor's bacteria quickly occupied their requisite niches resulting in restoration of both the structure and
function of the microbial communities present.
Again applying his
knowledge of microbial communities» consumption patterns, his system there derived some of the chemicals and energy required for treatment from the sludge itself, thereby offsetting a percentage of the required chemical and energy inputs.
The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a
fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.
For now, Jansson relishes playing the role of soil surveyor, mapping the variety and
breadth of microbial communities so others can someday benefit from the knowledge.
In the article «Ecological communities by design,» Fredrickson discusses how synthetic ecology — the design and
construction of microbial communities with desirable properties — requires new knowledge on how communities function.
Elucidating the
impact of microbial community biodiversity on pharmaceutical biotransformation during wastewater treatment — Lauren B. Stadler — Microbial Biotechnology